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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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two or three hawkers out in the pedestrian
mall. Wanting to look for some cheap clothes, I decided to walk over to the
wholesale area of town, but most of the shops there were closed, with signs
on a few indicating they were closed for Eid (the same as Hari Raya, I
believe).
Later in the afternoon I decided to head back to the V&A (as it's one of
the few places in town where the shops are always open), and spent a couple
hours walking around the overpriced tourist area. At the red crafts barn
outside the main mall, nothing had changed: I found the stall where I bought
two overpriced pillow covers and a T-shirt last year still there selling the
same items, though the barn now closes at 7:00pm instead of 6:00pm (just for
this week closing time was 6:00pm due to the holidays). In the main
shopping building, the 1F T-shirt shop "Greatest Little T-Shirt Shop in the
Whole World" should be renamed "Most Expensive T-Shirt Shop in the Whole
World" -- as they wanted an incredible (for South Africa) R130/US$17.33 for
a T-shirt with a tiny embroidered flag. As I commented in last year's
African Travelogue, the V&A is the biggest tourist rip-off in Cape Town, and
I wasn't surprised to see that nothing in that respect had changed. As with
last year, the only shops offering decent prices on their wares were the two
AudioLens camera stores (with average prices on Fuji film, and no-flash
disposable cameras going for R39.95/US$5.33 rather than the R50 everyone
else was charging), and the official Ngwenya Glass shop, which was selling
their items for very good prices (much less than the neighboring souvenir
shops were selling them for).
Walking up to the 2F of the V&A, I noticed a bomb bag on the wall
("Barrett Bomb Bag") with a picture of two popular bomb types (the Mini
Limpett type 158 and the Soviet SPM), along with directions
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
